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The span between the bearing wall is 4.5m to the wall plate. The full width of the loft is 6.5m wide.

Good idea, just done a search for some and it comes with adhesive on the back that will help to keep the dust down to a minimum in the room. Thanks

Thanks for the explanation. I will follow your advice and put the socket on its own 2.5 and have the garage on the 100mA side. The only way I can run the 2.5 is down the wall on top of the plaster behind the curtin then through the wall to the socket. Is this allowed if the 2.5 is just...

No, its for the wifes water fountain at the house end. Why is it bad practice to put the socket in the SWA? Can I still put the socket in the SWA cable but connect the SWA cable to the 30mA RCD side of the CU instead? Or is there a good reason it needs to be connected to the 100mA RCD at...

I was going to fit some thing like a two way split board. It sounds like the only safe way to have the outside socket is on its own spur and not inline with the SWA cable. Is this correct?

Is it not a good idea to run the SWA 4mm down the house wall and into the waterproof socket and then onto the shed, if not can you explain why? I don't have an indoor socket to spur off of close by and the 100mA RCD is not the S version.

I want to put power into the brick built shed. It will be 6mm twin & earth from the CU to the outside/inside wall then into 4mm SWA cable and come down the wall into a waterproof outdoor socket on the wall and then out to the garage and the run is about 25m.. What side of the CU should the...

Hi all The longest 4x2" I can find local are 3.6m but they are not long enough to do the span in one. Can I butt them end to end and put another 4x2" along the side over where they butt up together and then drill through and use 4 bolts to fix them together? Will this be as strong as a...

When I reset the 100mA RCD it trips the mcb 30mA on the radial main in our living room that only has our TV set, video, cable box on it. What could be causeing this? Thanks

I will give it a go with the acro props and see if I can take some of that sage out and use it as a store room. I did have an large Velux window installed when we had the stacks taken down that lead me to the idea of possibly turning it into a loft room but I have priced all the timber etc...

I will look for some 4 meter 4x2" over the weekend. To span across at 90 degrees to the sagging timbers. I just had an idea; I have two purling running all the way around my roof inside equally space up the slop of the roof. Wonder if I can steel strap the sagging joists to the bottom of the...

Do I screw down through the top or through the sides on an angle? Also the main bearing wall is 4 metres from the wall plate in that direction and the 4x2" timbers are only 3 meters long what is the best way to join them to keep there strengh because they won't be long enough? Thanks

I already have the 2x8 feet boards for the loft, they are P5 boards if these are ok. Where can I find out the regs? What is the best way to fix the 3x2" with at 90 degrees? Thanks

I want to use the loft for storage and possibly in the future as a loft room. The house was built in the late 1920’s. There are no boards at the moment and the joists in there are 4”x2” with 12 to 15 inch spacing between the joists and the main centre bearing wall is 12 feet from the wall plate...

No not yet, he needs to pass the lighting to complete the work, but that has a reverse polarity on the circuit that needs to be looked at first. The rest he said had passed.

Hi Chris What am I looking for visually or how do I check with my multi meters? Thanks Sparky123 about the 100 ohms being ok for my TT system. I'm not sure what the Ze or the Zs value is. Thanks

The tester Hotpoint used to test was a Martindale EZ650.

Just had Hotpoint deliver and fit our third new cooker in as many weeks. They put a test on all the sockets in the house and said the reading is showing high resistance on all our sockets and said the cooker is fine it’s defiantly our electrics that are at fault. They said it looks like the CU...

I will have to find out where I can hire one. The electrician put one on and it read 40 some thing if I remember correctly. Is this high? Thanks

Just an update. The appliance engineer came out and could not find any fault with the dish washer and the boiler engineer came out and could not find anything wrong with the boiler. Since the electrician came out and pointed out the faults was probably with the boiler and or the dishwasher...